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President Gitanas Nausėda invited the Minister of Social Security and Labor, Monikas Navickienė, to an interview on how to reduce the sharp increase in unemployment. The ministry proposes to recalculate the benefits for parents and expand the circle of benefits for the self-employed. However, experts explain that this will not be enough.
In the village of Velžio, Panevėžys district, in the afternoon – agitation. Social workers distribute food baskets to the poor.
“This is how we live: cereals, potatoes. Clearly complicated. Sometimes, sometimes you don’t eat,” says Antanas.
This type of bag of cereals, pasta, preserves, sugar and other protective masks is given to those whose income per person in the family does not exceed 187 euros. Antanas, who is waiting for support, says that during the quarantine many rural residents, both young and old, find it difficult to make ends meet.
“It just came to our knowledge then. And yet how? You can still find work in the city, and you will find it here. The buses pass twice. It also helps those grains,” says Antanas.
“It is a problem to find and there is no work, that is where to go to work, even if only in quarantine. And it’s difficult, “says Justina.
Most people who hope to constantly expect support will try some charity food for the first time:
“It just came to my attention then. I don’t know, I hope for the best. I have a dog, a cat, at least they will need to eat.”
The social worker says that during the quarantine, the number of food applicants increased and the demand decreased.
“There used to be people who, ‘oh, maybe not.’ And right now, those 339 people are really eager to ask when there will be. Really very willing, ”said social worker Aušra Simonaitytė-Šnyrė.
“Surveys also show that about 40 percent. People during their pandemic, their income fell significantly. This is an unemployment problem, there is a real decrease in income,” says Rimgailė Baltutė, representative of the Reduction Organizations of poverty.
282 thousand are currently unemployed. of all employees, that is, more than 16 percent of compatriots. Counting just the unemployed youth, there are even more: 17 percent. Total registered unemployment increased by seven percent during the year.
President Nausėda summoned the Minister of Social Security and Labor, Monika Navickienė, for an interview on how to reduce unemployment and poverty.
According to the president, the unemployment insurance system should be reviewed, since it is the first pillow that could address the situation of those who lost their jobs during the pandemic. Only 30 percent. the unemployed receive unemployment benefits. This is significantly too low a percentage, ”says Simon Krėpšta, Counselor to the President.
According to the president’s adviser, Lithuania could follow the example of other European countries, where, despite seniority, young people who have lost their jobs receive additional benefits. Lithuania could use the funds from the European Recovery Fund for this purpose. At the time, Minister Navickienė assured that she would propose to the Seimas to allow her parents to calculate benefits more favorably than now.
“Make the tax period on which benefits are calculated more favorable. If income decreased during the pandemic, the pre-pandemic period would be calculated and then the maternity benefits would be higher, ”says M. Navickienė.
And the € 260 support for downtime will reach a wider circle of freelancers. Now some professions are overboard. For example, potters cannot operate, but they are not on the support lists.
“Tomorrow we will have more information on where to apply for self-employment so that they can receive support, even if they are not included in the code list,” Navickienė said.
“There is no need to spend money, especially for young people, to allocate funds for recycling, education, to do everything possible to keep those people here, to decide not to leave Lithuania. This time, unlike last year, we can to see a wave of emigration of young people ”, says the economist Sigismund Mauricas.
According to Maurico, young people can start looking for happiness and profit abroad if bans in Lithuania last longer than in other countries. And even when a pandemic subsides, life for workers in the tourism or service sector may not be any easier.
“A part of the population will find it difficult to find work and will need to retrain and seek opportunities in other sectors. The first task for all countries, apart from Lithuania, is to increase the flexibility of the labor market, ”says Ž. Mauricas.
At the time, poverty reduction organizations noted that the quarantine had a particularly severe impact not only on the young or the elderly, but also on people of early retirement age. Its unemployment rate is the highest, reaching almost 19 percent, almost a fifth.
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